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Feb. 2, 2022
Government will start financial allocations for traditional leaders to roll out Gukurahundi programmes, giving impetus to the national healing exercise and resolve the emotional issue. This initiative will be managed by the Office of the President and Cabinet following the release of funds by Treasury.
Aug. 23, 2020
The Government will start exhuming and burying bodies of victims of the post-independence disturbances commonly referred to as Gukurahundi, among a host of initiatives meant to address the issue and promote national healing. In addition, the Government will also start issuing birth certificates to children of some of the people who were killed during the disturbances and have been failing to get the documents and death certificates of those who died.
April 10, 2019
President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged to facilitate the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi victims, provision of counselling and medical assistance to victims and survivors as well as issuance of identity documents to the affected. This comes as the government has begun the process of finding redress to the 1980’s mass killings, which claimed over 20 000 lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces. Mnangagwa last month met clergy and civic groups from Matabeleland region under the banner, Matabeleland Collective (MC). The CSOs pressed him to shed light on what his administration was doing to attend to mounting calls for closure to the emotive issue where over 20 000 civilians were killed in the southern region by the North Korean-trained army unit, Fifth Brigade. The meeting was held at the Bulawayo State House. Some of the demands included decriminalising Gukurahundi and allowing victims and survivors to discuss their experiences without fear of arrest. MC convenor Trevor Masuku said the government had formally responded to their concerns “in the form of an implementation matrix” that was announced by Justice ministry secretary Virginia Mabiza.